UPDATE: Seaside police have identified the woman as 58-year-old Charlene Leslie, a transient who frequented the Laguna Grande park area.
A 58-year-old woman was found dead floating in the water at Laguna Grande park this morning.
Seaside Deputy Police Chief Louis Lumpkin says just before 10:30am, a passer-by called police after they heard there was a body below the bridge connecting the Seaside and Monterey sections of Laguna Grande park.
Lumpkin says the person who called the police had heard the information third-hand.
“There was a delay in the report,” says Lumpkin. “We understand the first witness saw the body around 9am.”
Police officers and Seaside firefighters spotted the woman floating in the water. Police estimate she was in her 30s.
The police are investigating the death as suspicious.
“There are no obvious signs of trauma,” says Lumpkin. “We will know more after the autopsy.”
“We’re thinking she had only been there at least 24 hours,” Lumpkin says.